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Welcome! I'm Nicola, I encourage mums who are struggling with tough times make their home happy. My husband has Crohn's disease, one of my sons has Down Syndrome and yet - most of the time - our home is a happy place and I'd love to share with you how that looks!

I’m very impressed at the de-cluttering carried out already by some of you. Today I was thinking we should pick something different to declutter that often gets overlooked and is worth doing coming into the winter…

…medicines!

You know that time in secondary school when you needed to bring in a random spice from home for home ec class – like cinnamon or curry powder (it’s Northern Ireland in the 1990s, these are exotic) – and your mum realised that it went out of date three years previously? Well, I bet if you checked some things in your medicine cabinet there’ll be some out of date classics there too!

I don’t know where you keep your medicines but I have a packet of paracetamol and Gaviscon sachets (heartburn this pregnancy, ugh) in the car, in the bedroom and in my wash bag as well as the normal medicines in the kitchen cupboard. You need to check all of them! Every so often I go through the main medicine box and am horrified to find lemsip and rehydrate sachets well out of date. And I know some people never go through them so we may well find some gems here!

The challenge

Get your medicines together, clear out anything that is out of date and write a list of what needs replaced. If you find a medicine that is still in date but you used it during one illness ages ago and are unlikely to need it again, don’t be afraid to throw it out as well. You can always buy it again if you need.

If you’re on top of this already or feel like you could push yourself a bit further, go through the bathroom cabinets and throw out old toiletries that haven’t been used in ages, suncream (apparently suncream halves in effectiveness from year to year. So this year I decided after three years on the go, I’d throw out our collection and will buy fresh next summer!) and even the cleaning sprays and cloths. I bet there’s plenty of space that could be freed up by this task!

Happy is her Home

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Hi! I'm Nicola and I live in Belfast with my husband Colin and two sons - Daniel is 5 and Rory is 2. Baby 3 is due in early 2018.

I'm a Christian and an average-to-poor homemaker who has found herself a stay at home mum. I want this to be a place to encourage other mums who are feeling overwhelmed, perhaps because they too have a child with special needs or care for a family member with a chronic illness, or maybe just with life with pre-schoolers, believe me there are days that's the most complicated problem I've got to solve! And I always like to share the positive stories about Down Syndrome.